Building up the desires of His variegated devotees, Sri Krishna Chaitanya appears to be a highly renounced scholar to the intelligent class of men and women and as a wandering celibate student to the soft hearted Vaishnavas.

Taking on the appearance of a young and innocent boy, He causes so much delightful mischief in order to grab the attention of the humorous and care free devotees of the Lord.

Sometimes revealing His form as the greatest of maha-bhagavatas, Sri Krishna Chaitanya does so for winning over the allegiance of countless living entities who are without proper guidance in devotional matters.

In even rarer circumstances, He chooses to beatifically expose His position as the ultimate rope of Govinda’s loving potencies, Srimati Radhika.

Sending love notes to all of His variegated devotees whenever He engages in the yuga-dharma of the age, sankirtana, Sri Krishna Chaitanya has never been so intimate in regards to how He feels towards the crowds of playable flutes.

Getting the rest of the pancha tattva to coordinate their bodily movements with His eternally dancing feet, this sankirtana party appears to have started in a certain time and place; but for devotees, chanting His pastimes is enough to rejuvenate the infinitely jubilant feet of Sri Krishna Chaitanya.

Sometimes conscious of Himself as being a devotee of the devotees and sometimes conscious of Himself as being Bhagavan Sri Krishna, this golden avatara is the multi-conscious god of limitless existences.

Flattered by jokes and compliments, no other avatara of Vishnu is as regardless of offences committed against Him as this curly haired prankster of Navadvip.

Accompanied by the pancha tattva wherever He travels to, they perfectly serve His mission by adding onto His transcendental strengths and weaknesses.

Unmoved by the three worlds, He places the lotus flowers of His realizations into the hands of the most sinful of degraded characters and into the hands of the most righteous of divine personalities.

Unmoved by the piety of priests and the raunchiness of jagai and madhai types, Sri Krishna Chaitanya is a transcendental universe of merciful and melodic qualities.

Adoring the pancha tattva by becoming an atom of their lotus feet, the mind, body and soul are naturally controlled by the subtle and gross meanings of their moon like realizations.

Like a parrot, may I simply repeat whatever they decide to reveal to the bottomless ocean of this self-manifest creation.

Buddha says truth is eternal, and whatsoever is not eternal is a dream -- beware of the dreams! And your mind is also part of your body; that's why he says beware of false imaginings. Your mind goes on giving you false ideas; it says, "Look how healthy I am, how strong I am, look how beautiful I am." It goes on deceiving you, it goes on telling you that death always happens to others, not to you. Nobody is an exception. And the mind is such a deceiver, so cunning, so crafty that it can make you believe anything. It can make you believe in money, and you will have to leave all your money when you go. But you cling to money, people are ready to die for money.

In fact, that's how many people die: their whole lives are spent accumulating money; they sell their lives just to accumulate a few pieces of gold. That gold will remain here and you will be gone, and the gold has no attachment to you. It is you who have created all kinds of attachments.

And the mind always goes on creating a future; it goes on saying to you, "What has not happened yet is going to happen tomorrow -- wait!" It keeps you hoping, it keeps you trying in new ways, in new pastures. If this woman has not satisfied you then the mind says, "It is because this woman is such -- find another!" And this will go on and on. If this man is not satisfactory, the mind says, "It is because this man is wrong." But the mind never allows you to see the fact that no man, no woman, can ever satisfy anybody. Satisfaction is not possible in this world. Contentment is possible only when you move into your state of being, when you become a no-mind. Contentment is the flavor of no-mind.

And when you can manage, mind gives you fantasies, foolish, stupid, absurd. But mind is a great seducer....

Muriel and Tina were discussing their recent experiences over cocktails. "Say," asked Muriel, "how did you make out with that eccentric millionaire you met yesterday?" "He gave me five hundred dollars," said Tina. "That screwball wanted to make it in a coffin." "No kidding!" exclaimed Muriel. "I'll bet that shook you up?" "Yeah, but not as much as the six pall-bearers."

The mind can seduce you into anything, into any stupid thing. And once anything gets into your mind, it tortures you, it haunts you. You have to do it -- it seems that is the only way to get rid of it. But before you get rid of it, mind gives you another idea. Mind is very inventive as far as imagination is concerned. Mind can go on inexhaustibly creating new ideas for you; that's what has been happening for centuries, for lives. You have lived in this world for so many lives repeating the same kinds of things again and again, maybe a little bit different but the things are the same... and still you go on hoping.

Buddha says beware of the false imaginings; the body is a shadow, you have to leave it one day. You are not it.

This poem, *Slow Dance*, was penned by a 16-year old terminally ill girl in New York. She'll never make it to her prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. See her poem below:

Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.

Do you run through each day "on the fly?" When you ask, "how are you"? Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, Do you lie in your bed. With the next 100 chores Running through your head?

You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.

Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow" And in your haste, Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die Cause you never had time To call and say, "hi".

You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last....

When you run so fast to get somewhere, You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It's like an unopened gift Thrown away.

Life is not a race. Do take it slower. Hear the music] Before the song is over !!

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this."

Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying:

"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!"

Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

"You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created."

And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?" And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.

So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals."

And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying:

"You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth."

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice:

"Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!"

And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:

"Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!"

Then the four living creatures said, "Amen!" And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.

Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, "Come and see." And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come and see." Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.

When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine."

When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.

I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" - Revelation 4-6

WORSHIP Let them praise the name of the LORD, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and heaven. And He has exalted the horn of His people, The praise of all His saints- Of the children of Israel, A people near to Him. Praise the LORD! Psalm 148:13-14

WISDOM There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yes, four which I do not understand: The way of an eagle in the air, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the midst of the sea, And the way of a man with a virgin.

Proverbs 30:18-19 Summary: Revelation 7-18 The catastrophic events in Revelation chapters 7-18 are of such a magnitude and severity that John's vocabulary and descriptive ability are stretched to the limit. In fact, when you read of a third of the earth burning, man-killing locusts, a star falling from heaven, a great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, or one hundred pound hailstones falling from heaven, you may be tempted to think John has not just been stretched, but that he is hallucinating.

He isn't. He is describing in terms and images familiar to him things no man has ever witnessed. Think of it this way.

How difficult might it have been for someone in Jesus' day to describe putting a man on the moon, or the flight of the space shuttle? Or how about that same person explaining how a surgeon uses a laser in eye surgery, or how he replaces a valve on the human heart? Or even how music is placed on a small silver disc and then comes out very loud from black boxes with tiny holes?

You see, Revelation is "apocalyptic" literature and as such is characterized by symbolic language, terrifying visions, dreadful judgments. Everything is of titanic proportions.

John's dictionary may be limited as he describes the consummation of history, but all of time and creation will end just as he describes . . . he has gotten every detail down pat.

Too often we feel alone. But there is always someone ready to take our hand. Here is a beautiful story of an over-worked nurse who escorted a tired, young man to her patient's bedside. Leaning over and speaking loudly to the elderly patient, she said, "your son is here."

With great effort, his unfocused eyes opened, then flickered shut again. The young man aqueezed the aged hand in his and sat beside the bed. Throughout the night he sat there, holding the old man's hand and whispering words of comfort.

By morning's light, the patient had died. In moments, the hospital staff swarmed into the room to turn off the machine and remove the needles. The nurse stepped over to the young man's side and began to offer sympathy, but he interrupted her.

"Who was that man?", he asked. The startled nurse replied, "I thought he was your father!"

"No, he was not my father,", he answered. "I never saw him before in my life."

"Then, why didn't you say something when i took you to him?" "I realized he needed his son and his son wasn't there.," the man explained. "And since he was too sick to recognize I wasn't his son, I knew he needed me."

Mother Teresa used to remind us that nobody should have to die alone. Likewise, nobody should have to grieve alone or cry along either. Or laugh alone or celebrate alone.

We are made to travel life's journey hand in hand. There is someone ready to grasp your hand today. And someone hoping you will take theirs.

It's resolution time again, isn't it? I'm shocked to see that my last blog post was a year ago, where did the time go? I want to come to this site more often, and participate more than I did in 2012. No better time than the present

Rather than "resolutions", I've got a few things I'd like to work on and see real progress with this year. And beyond just having a list of them, I've also mapped out some small doable steps to get me started, ones that I hope will become second nature, habit, easy...

They sound simple.

Love myself enough that I care for my physical, mental and spiritual well being each and every day. How? by making the effort to become a better cook, by doing those little pampering things that I never seem to have time for, by meditating daily (not sporadically as i do now), by soaking in some sun, by moving my body more, by taking time to notice what I'm grateful for and acknowledging it, taking time to be with friends, reconnecting with nature.

Love my environment enough to take care of it each and every day. How? by making decisions about what's necessary and what I can let go of, by taking the time to make something more beautiful, adding fresh flowers, or changing things around that have become a bit stale and making them inviting again, by choosing to waste less and recycle more, and using money and other possessions more thoughtfully.

Letting the creative side of me run wild. How? write what I feel and share it, have the cooking blog I've been thinking about, get out and take photos and post them in abundance, pick up that guitar and keep at it chord by chord until it's music, paint something joyful, draw something mysterious, sing something boldly, share something freely, teach something valuable....

The following is a partial quote form the "Book Continuing the Journey: A New Way of Looking at Spiritualist Ideas"

As mentioned earlier, humans tend to judge everything from their limited point of view. Their deeply seated need is just part of their nature. As a result, it is often difficult to evaluate concepts, which step outside of those boundaries. One term, which humans consistently misuse, is ‘unconditional love’. Humans give the spirit and the universal energy or consciousness a human characteristic.

Various groups and teachers hold out that universal love is defined in many different ways.

1. Universal love is universal conscious.

2. Universal love is perfect harmony.

3. Universal love is loss of ego and total submergence in all it is.

I will not follow their approach and indeed will take a significantly different route. I am not arguing with their approach except to suggest they look at it as a human, not as a spiritual being. I will state that if universal love is the universal consciousness, then automatically it is in perfect harmony and everything is totally submerged, as everything is made up of universal energy. However, to achieve what the universal energy intends its spirits to achieve, universal love, under this description would be counter-productive.

Some argue that learning about love or universal love is the purpose of mans lives on this plane. It is not! The purpose as stated before is to have experiences and to learn about the emotion generated by each event, including love.

Love

First let us understand what love is. Love is, from a human perspective, an emotion. It relates to the feelings of individuals for others, animals and more. However, while love involves emotions, often the first initiation of love is recognition, perhaps subtly, that there may be an opportunity to develop a physical or intellectual relationship. Immediately there are chemical reactions within the body, which stimulate bonding.

As a general statement, the love of a woman for a man is initially the result of something attracting her attention or mental awareness. Immediately her body responds with a chemical release. From this starting point, the woman develops emotional attachments, which in turn cause more mental images and chemical links. Mixed in with this is the building of an initial energetic cord, which links the energetic bodies of both individuals. These strengthen with each increase in mental, chemical and emotional response. The love of a man for a woman is essentially the same, although at a different pace.

There are other types of love of course, such as a mother for her child; however, it is unnecessary to delve deeper into these, except to note, that they are also initially based upon a chemical reaction of the physical body. If you wish to challenge that statement, there is ample scientific documentation you can research to validate the statement.

Unconditional Love

Unconditional love is one-step further. Unconditional love involves the recognition of traits and/or actions by the loved individual that are not acceptable in their relationship or society. Notwithstanding the traits or actions, one person continues to maintain a love for the person. They may strongly disagree with what the person did; however, they still feel a deep love for them. An example, a son who is in jail for a cruel and unjustified crime may receive unconditional love from his mother. The mother will disagree with what he did and think he should stand for punishment, yet still love him.

I know some of you will immediately disagree and argue for the definitions provided earlier. Consider this!

Love on the Spiritual Plane

There is no such thing as love, let alone unconditional love, on the spiritual plane.

Unconditional love is an aspect of human function, most often exhibited between parents and children, and it is, unfortunately, rarely experienced in the human consciousness. Why rarely? Rarely is the best description, for although many speak of it, few actually practice it.

To understand the position and impact love has on the spiritual path you need to understand that the spirit does not love. Love is a human response and condition. The spirit uses love as a tool. Let me explain.

Your energetic system creates energy cords between every person to whom you interact. It does not matter how short the interaction. The cords get stronger the longer the interaction and the more emotion displayed. The energy cords, which the human energy field creates between chakras or other specific body areas, strengthen in response to the mental, chemical, emotional and energetic body responses. The process follows specific steps.

1. You interact with someone. If it is a straightforward business interaction, there is little emotion and the cords, which are created, drop away quickly. If it is someone you feel an interest in, love or anger, the cords which start to form will continue to grow after you part.

2. The brain creates chemical response to a person’s presence. This is the basic physical like or dislike chemical response initially experienced before the brain gets involved and it becomes an emotional response. This is part of the survival function.

3. The body’s chemicals create an emotional response to the person within the brain. This emotion response may be negative, or extremely positive. Often you cannot intellectually explain why you hold the feelings you do about the person.

4. Energetic cords continue to strengthen.

5. You part and the chemical response continues whenever you are with the person or they are in your thoughts. There is no difference to the brain.

6. With the continued chemical input, you also develop more emotional responses and an intellectual interest in the other person.

7. Energetic cords continue to strengthen.

8. These continue to follow the same pattern until the person is absent from your mind for an extended time or they do something which removes your emotional reactions. These steps apply to love or anger.

9. Regardless if you have lost a love, separated from a person who hurt you, the cords will create a reaction whenever you think of them. This is why people who have emotional problems with past memories need to release their cords. Releasing of the energetic cords will slowly delete all emotional responses to a person.

That represents the human body’s response in the development of any relationship. The development of energetic cords is a physiological function. The use of energy and chemicals are not spiritual functions; they are simply an aspect of the human body. The spirit does not have the same trigger mechanisms and does not develop a ‘love’ relationship. The spirit does not have ‘chemical’ reactions nor does it develop cords.

Does the spirit have and show love or unconditional love? The straightforward answer is no. The term ‘love’ is unknown to the spirit when in the universal energy. It is one of the most complex emotional and physiological human aspects the spirit is learning when it undertakes human experience. Love, as discussed above, is strictly a human response.

If the spirit does not have love, what does it show toward humans?

The upper spiritual consciousness has access to the memories and emotions of every lifetime it has experienced. As such, it is able to draw on those memories and experiences, and re-experience the emotional love that the human host felt toward other humans during a specific incarnation. That love is real, while being experienced. If that memory is completed and returned to the universal memory, the upper spiritual consciousness does not have any lingering emotional response toward any human body.

The lower spiritual consciousness is the active part of the spiritual consciousness, which incarnates. During the incarnation, it shares the emotional experience with the human consciousness. It is the lower spiritual consciousness, which carries the experiences and emotions back to the spirit and places it into the universal memory. While incarnated, the lower spiritual consciousness knows love and experiences it as the human consciousness explores it. However, once it rejoins the upper spiritual consciousness, it releases that awareness of love into the universal memory.

This is essential. If it held onto love for the other spirits (human hosts) and it re-incarnated, it would face considerable difficulty developing a balanced life and ability to love someone else. When the lower spiritual consciousness sets past loves aside, it is able to develop a new love experience in the new life. It is able to experience and explore all the moments, which build love into a full bloom.

The human consciousness experiences love. It develops a strong connection to its children and to its mate. The human body is able to develop a sense of love toward a wide range of people although the love will vary in intensity and emotional complexity depending upon the person or situation. As an example, the love of a parent is different from the love of a child or a spouse.

Yet all love developed by the human consciousness develops for two main reasons.

1. Survival, which is the human consciousness’s primary responsibility. It recognizes that love makes bonding and survival much more successful. Therefore, it uses the chemical reactions and the emotional bonds to create a human response, which leads to love.

2. The lower spiritual consciousness's main responsibility is to experiencing events and the human consciousness's related emotions. The human consciousness has no responsibility in the development of experience, except that it provides the lower spiritual consciousness a body with which to experience the events it has chosen. As the presence or absence of love is one of the most powerful experiences on the earth plane, the lower spiritual consciousness is able to use the human consciousness’s desire for love as a tool to learn more about the experience.

Some people will react to this supposed lack of love and claim that the whole purpose of mankind is to learn to love. One main purpose of the human consciousness may well be classified as learning to love, for it aids in survival. However, the spiritual consciousness does not need to be concerned about survival, other than how it affects their experience. The spirit has no need to love.

That does not mean the spirit is, in human terms, ‘hard hearted’. It is just that the spirit is not human and functions on a level beyond the human understanding. The universal energy ‘cares’ for all its creations for it both created them and now uses them for experience and learning. However, what the spirit feels depends on the moment. If it is before the spirit's life review, use of the term ‘love’ is acceptable. After the life review use of the term 'love’ is incorrect.

When you, the human, picture your arm, you do not think in terms of loving it. You want it to be healthy, and likely do not actually notice it unless something it does or feels creates a problem. You do not think of your heart as an object you love as it is also just a part of you. You usually do not think of your whole body from a perspective of self-love. If you do, you are unusual. You want your body to be healthy, and when you refer to self-love, you are usually referring to the care you administer to the body.

Your spirit, both the upper and lower spiritual consciousnesses are parts of the universal energy. As a conscious entity, the universal energy or consciousness does not think of the parts with love, in human terms, but as you think of the arm and heart, as parts you want to operate efficiently and in a healthy state.

You must understand that you are part of the universal energy. You are a spirit. The universal energy created the spirit and the human form. Your spirit shares the human form with the human consciousness. Therefore, you are part of the universal energy. You do not feel love in the human sense for yourself.

As for reacting with love towards other spirits, your spirit does not have a ‘love’ emotion or state towards the other spirits. All spirits are part of the universal energy, and while all have separate consciousnesses, they share a common consciousness in the universal energy. They are all instantly connected and aware of each other. They would consider the others, much as discussed above, part of the whole.

Let us use the human form as an example. It is possible to use the physical structure to represent, in a limited way, how universal energy works. Imagine the human brain representing universal energy. Your right side of the brain controls and operates the left arm. Your left side of the brain controls and operates the right arm. As each arm must be operated and controlled independently, yet work together, you may say that a different sub-consciousness, governed by the whole brain operates both, for the brain must be fully aware of what each arm is doing.

While the specialized consciousnesses of the brain are aware of their side’s function, the whole brain governs both halves, and they are instantly connected. This is similar to the functioning of the universal energy and spirit. The brain does not love its parts nor does the universal energy love its spirits.

By extending that example to the spirits, you will understand that spirits do not love each other. The spirits are all part of the whole, and as such, the universal energy is aware of but does not love each part. It wants them to function efficiently and to experience. The universal energy is aware of what each is doing, yet it allows each spirit’s consciousness to function independently. However, using a human term, the spirits care for each other, for they willingly provide assistance to each other so that each may experience as much as is possible while incarnating.

From the spiritual perspective, an emotional love is a tool which may be used to ensure the success of an action or relationship. Spirits, which require a ‘love’ emotion to achieve a specific purpose can, instantly, be filled with a strong emotional love for another spirit or human body. This may be necessary when welcoming a lower spiritual consciousness or offering support. People often report they feel a flood of warmth and love when they meet their guides or other entities. This is simply because, without that love, they may turn away. The love is real when used for these purposes. The spirit draws this emotion from the universal memory as required. It is a true meaning of love, for it is the emotional memory, which relates to the incarnated individual they are greeting.

There is no such thing as love or unconditional love on the spiritual plane. It is experienced only on the earth plane by the human consciousness and the lower spiritual consciousness.

Don’t be dismayed. Don’t be dismayed. Although there is no such thing as unconditional love on the spiritual plane, you can and should continue to seek and give love in all you do. It is part of your human condition and experience. It would be best though, if you recognized that the human condition is replaced by an overwhelming sense of inclusion in the universal consciousness. This sense of inclusion or being part of the universal consciousness is far more potent and all encompassing than the term love can ever imply.

December 29, 2012 an easy 40 mile meditative run, “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

True to form, the county's central air conditioning system was set on freeze and my students begged me to open a window. Most days, the only thing that comes into the building is warm air that takes the biting edge off the cold. Some days, however, wild life find their way into my classroom. Sometimes the visitors are as simple as wandering lizards the length of a No. 2 pencil after it's been sharpened a few times. One time our visitor was a chameleon whose color changed from black to brilliant green as soon as it found its way back into the outside world.

But the visitor this day was a dragonfly who slipped in during lunch without my knowledge. I had already started the day's lesson when our guest was discovered by a couple of girls who noticed it flying near the board. I say 'noticed' to be polite, because they did more than notice. One of them shrieked. Another one left the room claiming to be petrified of the little insect.

I've never known dragonflies as anything other than the insects that fly and are almost as beautiful as butterflies. I also know they eat mosquitoes, which makes them A-ok in my book, so I couldn't understand that student's reaction. Regardless, I moved to help the little visitor escape the room by opening the fire escape and the door into the hallway -- maybe a cross breeze would lead him out.

When that didn't work, I picked up a broom and tried to shoo him out, but I couldn't reach him. A taller-than-me student offered to help, but when he suggested he was going to kill the intruder, I whipped the weapon out of his hands.

"Never mind," I said. "I'll take care of it."

Then I focused on the dragonfly, as if I could talk to him -- I don't know, maybe I was channeling some character from some Disney fairy cartoon or something, but I was certain I could get him to leave of his own volition. I certainly couldn't continue teaching when even the idea of him was freaking out my seventeen-year-olds!

He flew toward a corner where I could reach him better, then I reconsidered the idea. Instead of stepping on a chair to take a gentle swipe at him with my broom, I cupped my hands over my head and softly called to him.

To my utter fascination, he dropped into my hands and stayed there as I walked him to the open fire escape and blew on him softly.

I've never been the same.

Tons of research has led me to discover that dragonflies, in spiritual circles, pierce the veil between dimensions. Sometimes, they symbolize our need to get past the illusions of this dense world. Sometimes, they are messengers telling us to tap into our deeper thoughts and creative imaginings. Sometimes, they represent the beings who help us most -- our Spirit guides.

To me, that dragonfly was all these things and more. That visit spurred me on to examine the spiritual world and how it appears in my life -- the coincidences, the lucky breaks, the synchronicity of things. It also led me to accept my life and what it has become. Of course, the transition hasn't been easy. At times, I can be heard kicking and screaming about how life isn't fair. The truth is, as I'm learning, It's all fair. It's all part of the life we signed up for.

This blog, therefore, is the musings of a budding spiritualist who will never be able to fully let go of my Catholic upbringing. That's okay. As I continue on the road to my own personal enlightenment, I will hold these new lessons to the magnifying glass of the teachings from my upbringing and try to make sense of it all -- the truth that was hidden from us and the spiritual truth that resonates in me now.

Fortunately for my friend the dragonfly, there is no mention of them in the Bible (probably because they thrive in water, not desert.) So the dragonfly survives analysis today. It has become my teacher, my guardian angel, who guides me closer to the being some people know as Source, or Spirit, or Supreme Being, or God.

I hope this blog becomes a place for others to continue their spiritual growth as well.

I come to you all in this hour to share a special message. I see a great deal of love when I look upon the world and this fills me and the angels with such profound happiness. The message I wish to share with you is of the love in your hearts and the connection between people whos love lights up the stars.

This connection goes beyond anything that can be summed up into words, it is deeper than the very core of your earth but once it is found this connection cannot and will not be broken. To love is to live, without love we are nothing, we cannot exist.

We the Angels love each and everyone of you dearly, we find your race one of the kindest, most giving and genuine than any others we have encountered. You have hearts for a reason, not merely to keep you alive but to feel. With every beat your heart takes, an effect is felt universally, your heart desires are noted and the world breaths you in, taking a moment to saviour your divine being.

Many humans see their hearts as a burden they ask why their heart aches, why do they feel so much pain when they lose someone or feel hurt but they do not see how lucky they are. To feel is what makes you human, with pain comes joy, with sorrow comes happiness but throughout it all, the good and bad, love is the key.

Take the love you have and share it whole heartedly, find your inner peace, love with all your heart, feel with all your heart, trust, advise, guide, give and follow your heart.

Your race is unique, your race is special and even though there is much hardship and struggling within your planet, love will inevitable set you all free. Don’t give up, even when things seem tough or it feels like the end as long as your heart beats you are needed, you are loved and you are alive.

Don’t take granted the beats you feel within your chest and remember that your heart is like a clock, every beat mirrors a tick, when your heart stops so does the clock so make every second count.

Overcome with the love and sadness in my heart of feeling so many souls in pain and acting out in the now. We are not separate, We Are One.

Your every action is meaningful.

As an individual, choose NOT to act from anger. You are in charge of yourself.

YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.

Hurting others is not the answer. It is such an evil and poisonous energy that you spew forth when acting violently, you are a human being, you have free will, choose wisely. You poison yourself through such action and are allowing darkness to actively work through you any time you act out in such ways.

The power you are seeking from without has never been taken from you...no matter what you have walked through in life. I WOULD KNOW. I took that journey and owned it.

There is no excuse, your life and actions are your own creation. The only limitations that you see in your world are self-imposed. It does not matter where you come from, teach yourself this truth. I did and so can you.

Why Now????????? All Indians must read this.And this does not apply to a man...women are a part of this too.. I hope the "awakened manhood" goes a long way and beyond just protesting for one case...You stay silent when your mother is treated like shit by your father,You stay silent when your friend takes dowry from his wife's family,You stay silent when your classmates sits at a nukkad whistling 'maal' at passing women saying it is innocent fun,You stay silent when a million women every year in this nation are murdered before birth or their breath dunked in milk before god after it,You don't report the drunkard husband who beat up your maid servant because it is not your business,You stayed silent when your boss hit upon a female colleague and you told her to grin and bear it because it happens everywhere,You sing along with your favourite male stars as they call their 'items' chikni chameli and halkat jawani etc.,You stay silent when our police and paramilitary gang rape tribal and lower caste women and shove stones inside their rectum saying that that's an aberration of the system,You did not protest the lower pay that your female colleagues got just because of their sex,You helped your parents arrange a marriage for your sister against her wishes saying she doesn’t know her mind,You stayed silent when in a family discussion a woman’s voice was silenced by the cacophony of male voices,You force a woman to wear burqa in the pretext of sharia law or justify their domesticity because some asshole called Manu wrote some asinine laws hundreds of years back,You think feminism is shit and feminist loud mouthed 'bitches' who have not better work to do than cry victim,You applaud as Hindu right wing men barge into a hotel and slap ‘immoral’ women with the intention of ‘reforming’ their ‘maa’ ‘behen’,You stay silent when females in a party are sent away to discuss 'childish' things even as you discuss 'important' things like politics and all in their absence,You stayed silent when your father directly and sarcastically showed your mother that she's lower then men in intelligence time and again,You objected loudly when your girlfriend, wife wanted to put her life and career ahead of yours saying yours was more important,And now suddenly you have become a man because ONE woman was brutally beaten and raped while you conveniently forget the hundreds of women whose psyche you were responsible for brutally beating and raping directly, or indirectly through your inaction... and now you evoke the same 'maa' and 'behen' argument to protect them...Thanks to the serpent of your awakened manhood, that woman in Delhi will perhaps get justice. But what about the millions of other women in the country of different religion, region and sect united by their shared injustice who will perhaps never get justice precisely for the same reason - your manhood?

THE FREEDOM ROAD

THE FREEDOM ROAD: In "Road to Freedom" David Icke gives a keynote lecture reveals many secrets where hidden by those who govern us and manipulate. Among other things, talks about the Freemasons and the Illuminati and its relationship with many of the U.S. Presidents.
En "Camino a la Libertad" David Icke nos ofrece una magistral conferencia donde desvela numerosos secretos ocultos por aquellos que nos gobiernan y manipulan. Entre otras cosas, nos habla sobre la masonería y los iluminatis y su relación con muchos de los presidentes de EE.UU.